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Today's trope is Humiliation Conga. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumiliationConga

It's the end of the episode/Story Arc/series, and the villain's plans have fallen through. Now it's just a matter of dealing with the villain.

Sometimes you want the villain to escape or have the villain realize that his evil ways are wrong and become a good guy, but not this time, usually because it would make for an unsatisfying ending or would just take up too much time. But there's a problem... you can't kill him off. Maybe the censors won't allow it. Maybe he's just not evil enough or what he did isn't deserving of death. Maybe he's literally impossible to kill. Maybe you just aren't feeling up to bloodshed. Maybe you feel that death is too good for him. Or, of course, he needs to survive for his next Evil Plan.

Then how about the Humiliation Conga?

Everything the villain has built up, piece by piece, comes crashing down in front of him. The lovebirds he kept apart so that he could have the heroine for himself pass by him arm-in-arm, the hotel he spent millions building catches fire and burns down, his former Yes-Man steps on his foot, the bum he spat on now has a Rolex (probably the exact model he coveted) and asks him to light his cigar, and the dog he kicked is now laughing at him (or worse). People Come to Gawk at How the Mighty Have Fallen, and when one starts to laugh, everyone joins in. And here come the cops; turns out the mic was on when he declared his foul intentions.

In the end, the villain realizes he's in very, very dire straits. He's still alive, natch, but that's not all for the good.

TL,DR: A character is thoroughly humiliated when numerous embarrassing things happen to them in succession.

Nominations:
Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)
Herr Starr (Preacher)
Eric (Billy Madison)